KPA EHS has built-in lists such as employees, equipment, field-offices, lines-of-business, and customers.
At some point, there may be additional lists that you need to keep track of such as “Regions”, “Buildings”, “Shifts”, etc. These are called
data lists.
For example, you may have a few reports where the employee selects a “Region”. You could embed your list of regions directly within the report, but if you ever need to add a “Region” then you’ll have to add it on every single field in every single report. A custom data list would be a great fit here.
If you have a large number of items in your list (or if it changes often) then you could use the
DataListItem dataload to automatically keep your data lists up to date.
Now that you have created your data list, it can be used within a report. Any time the report is filled out, the list of options will be automatically up-to-date. Here’s how to use the new list: